Virender Sehwag's mega tone put India in the ascendancy in the first ODI of the series with Sri Lanka at Rajkot.
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Sehwag scored the second fastest century en route to making an emphatic 146, one that put India in command from the very start of the match.
Who needs to worry about fielding and bowling when the batting can hit the opposition out of the park? Sehwag certainly showed his full repertoire of shots as of his incorrigible style of batting that put Sri Lanka on the back foot from the very start.
The beauty of the pitch was revealed in the fact that India brought up the opening wicket partnership of 153 in only the twentieth over. India lost Sachin Tendulkar at that point for sixty-nine but there was no let up of pressure for the visitors as Mahendra Singh Dhoni joined Sehwag at the crease and continued in the same vein.
Dhoni's seventy-two from fifty-three balls kept India galloping along, and by the time India lost their third wicket in Dhoni, the score had ticked along rather well to 311 in the thirty-seventh over.
Punching cameos from Virat Kohli, who replaced the injured Yuvraj Singh, and Ravindra Jadeja ensured that India not only crossed the 400 mark but set up a daunting target of 414, the highest in limited overs for India, for Sri Lanka to chase!
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